How to recover deleted files from Samsung Galaxy S6

You may lost your important files on your Samsung Galaxy S6 due to various reasons. Don’t worry, you still have chance to get them back. The first thing to do is to stop using the device after deleting happens, otherwise, the new file will overwrite the old file.

There are many Android Data Recovery software, the one i would like to share is called Dr. Fone for Android which can help you recover deleted files such as contacts, message, photo, video, audio, document, Whatsapp history and call history etc from all from Samsung Galaxy S6, Samsung Galaxy S5/S4, Samsung Galaxy Note and other Android devices.

Tips: If you are a Mac user, you can turn to Dr. Fone for Android (Mac) to help you recover deleted files from Samsung Galaxy S6 on Mac.

Step by step to recover deleted files from Samsung Galaxy S6

Step 1: Connect your Samsung Galaxy S6 to computer

Download, install and run Data Recovery for Android to see the following main interface. Then, connect your Samsung Galaxy S6 to computer using a USB cable that comes with your Android devices.

Step 2: Enable USB debugging before scanning your Samsung Galaxy S6

If you didn’t enable USB debugging on your device, you’ll see the window below. Just follow the instructions below to set it now.

If you haven’t seen the instructions, you should make sure the version of Android running on your Android device first, then follow the steps to enable USB debugging.

Note: If you have enabled USB debugging on your device before, you can skip this step.

Note: Before doing this, make sure that your phone battery is more than 20% charged, so that you can get a smooth scan.

If you rooted your device before, you need to allow the program Superuser authorization on the screen of your device before scan. Just click “Allow” when message pops up on the device’s screen. Then, back to your computer and click “Start” to scan you device.

Step 4: Choose file type and scan mode

To save the time for scanning process, click “Next”, you will be asked to select file types to scan. Check the files you need to recover, and then click “Next” begin scan deleted files

In the newly popped up window, you are allowed to select scanning mode: Standard Mode or Advanced Mode. For Standard Mode, it will allow you both scan for deleted files or all files on your Android phone. And Advanced Mode is for deeper scan which will take you more time.

Step 5: Preview and recover deleted files from Android

Click “Next” to scan deleted files. After that, a list of recoverable files that have been found from your Android device will be shown. In addition, there will be a preview window of files where you can preview the contacts, SMS, photos and videos from your Android device. Mark those you want and click “Recover“.

In the new pop-up window, select a folder on your local drive to save the recovered the deleted photos on Android device.